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I’ve only hired someone to clean my apt. twice. Once after some construction was done, and once after my father died, and I could barely dress myself, let alone scrub the whole place down.

Many race/class implications of the past are rapidly fading.
…the sooner the better I say.
We need to move on.

A fabulous movie about an upper class Argentinian (Buenos Aires) woman and her housekeeper is “Live in Maid”. The “employer” is a spoiled diva who has lived with her maid her whole adult life– throughout her marriage and the raising of her daughter. Husband is gone (divorced) and daughter is gone (grown up and alienated from Mother) and the lady continues to “employ” the maid, who has not been getting paid since rich lady is no longer rich (this was made during the ‘crisis’). The maid sometimes buys food or necessities (out of her savings) for her employer who carries on in her habitual imperious way. The maid cooks, cleans, serves Madam drinks and takes phone calls from daughter (who avoids mother) to advice her, chit chat whatever. The maid finally quits, having not been paid, but comes back to help out the woman who is completely falling apart without her. It is really interesting, funny, droll story about a complicated and ultimately tender relationship.